Featured Image: Petman, Pentagon’s most human-like robot, SOURCE: Boston Dynamics
From youtube uploaded by RTAmerica
Published on Apr 16, 2013
Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the team at Boston Dynamics revealed the new robot which is outfitted with systems that “simulate human physiology”. Known as the Protection Ensemble Test Mannequin –or PETMAN robot for short, can run, jump and even splits. RT’s Meghan Lopez explains what this device can supposedly be used for.
That’s What I’m talking about!
Finally! Someone has brought this, well known, but only whispered about, dirty little secret out in the open. The replacement of human workers by robots is running right on schedule. If the “Robots replacing Humans” aspect of the big picture is new to you then spend a little time browsing through our Robotics Archive and come up to speed. Ask yourself “Who is paying for all of this research and preparation to make robots human?”
The fact is, this human worker replacement plan will dove-tail nicely with the Globalist Controllers Agenda 21 plan and the long rumored up-coming controlled population down sizing.
At least in my conspiratorial mind. . . EDITOR
From The Register By Alistair Dabbs, 12th April 2013
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…”Moshe Vardi, professor of Computational Engineering at Rice University, Texas, suggested that “routinized” jobs will be taken over by robots long before we reach mid-century and that the impact on unskilled human employment could be devastating to populations.” . . .
…”Henrik Christensen, director of the Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at Georgia Tech, offered a counter-argument this month. While robots will indeed take over drudgery and demeaning work, he reckons, meat-heads could be retrained to find skilled employment.” . . . Read Complete Report
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From IEEE Spectrum
ADD to Robot Replacing Humans Research file . . . EDITOR
Featured Image: COMAN Humanoid. Credit: IIT (Fair Use) SOURCE: Phys.Org.
From Phys.Org April 10, 2013 by Bob Yirka
(Phys.org) —Researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology with funding from the European AMARSI project have built the first passive compliant robot that features both arms and legs. Passive compliant robots are those that have flexible joints that allow the robot to move in more human-like ways. The new robot, called the COmpliant huMANoid (COMAN), is approximately the size of a child and is able to maintain its upright position even when knocked around. . . . Read Complete Report
From youtube uploaded by IITVideos
Full Body Compliant Humanoid COMAN
Published on Apr 3, 2013
The COmpliant huMANoid COMAN is developed by the Department of Advanced Robotics (ADVR), Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT).
http://www.iit.it/en/research/departm…
All the achievements shown in this video are attributed to the team work of the Humanoid Group in ADVR, IIT.
This without a doubt MUST be added to our “Robots Replacing Humans” file. . . EDITOR
From Phys.Org April 2, 2013 by Nancy Owano
(Phys.org) —DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is getting closer to its goal of securing robotic hands that mimic the hand’s finer movements, at an affordable cost. A research project has been under way to develop artificial hands; the main goals have been of an economic as well as technical nature; DARPA has been looking for robotic hand systems that offer not only optimal dexterity but can also come at a lower cost than in the past. The high costs associated with effective robotic hands have been $10,000 and up.. . . Read Complete Report
from youtube uploaded by spectrummag
Published on May 23, 2012
The DARPA ARM Program shows off its dual-arm robot, built by RE2, at the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, in St. Paul, Minn. Learn more:http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/ro…
Photo: Army Ants form a bridge. CREDIT: Geoff Gallice from Gainesville, FL, USA SOURCE: Wikipedia (Public Domain)
From youtube uploaded by MOXNEWSd0tC0M
Published on Mar 29, 2013
March 29, 2013 BBC News
From IEEE Spectrum
Photo: (THEI Archive) Nao humanoid robot CREDIT: Jiuguang Wang SOURCE:Wikipedia (Public domain)
By LUCAS LAURSEN / MARCH 2013
To be nice, robot rhetoric should be less precise
Baking cupcakes can be as much a matter of social interaction as it is a mechanical exercise. Never is this more true than when your kitchen partner is a robot. Their always-right, ego-deflating advice can be off-putting, reports social psychologistSara Kiesler and her colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh. But having them employ a different type of rhetoric could help soften the blow.
In one study, Kiesler’s former student Cristen Torrey, now at Adobe, observed how expert bakers shared advice with less-experienced volunteers. She recorded the interactions and extracted a few different approaches the experts used. For instance, “likable people equivocate when they are giving help,” Kiesler says. That is, they say things such as “Maybe you can try X” rather than simply “Do X.” They also soften their advice with extraneous words such as “Well, so, you can try X.” . . Read Complete Report
Keep in mind these reports are from 2011 and 2010 respectably. Using all of the advances in Robotics we have reported on here at THEI for the time since these reports we can only imagine just how far the knowledge of building Combat Robots has progressed. The thing that concerns me is that after the military perfects these killing machines in their undeclared wars in far off places; when the American people finally wake up – and they will wake-up someday – will the same robotic killers be turned on us? . . . EDITOR
From youtube uploaded by journeymanpictures
Robot Wars – USA
Uploaded on May 9, 2011
Dispute rages over ethics of killer machines
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From youtube uploaded by RussiaToday
Army of the Future: Russian combat Robots
Uploaded on Jan 30, 2010
The US already has thousands of military robots and unmanned aircraft in Afghanistan. As for the prospect of killer robots stalking the battlefield Russia is catching up, with a Russian team building one too.
Go a LITTLE DEEPER: THEI ARCHIVE: Robotics
Photo: Nao humanoid robot CREDIT:Jiuguang Wang SOURCE:Wikipedia Commons.
From PhysOrg January 30, 2013 by Hannah Schmidt
A robot to play with! A childhood’s dream has now come true for researchers at the Flanders’ Mechatronics Technology Centre (FMTC) in Belgium. Wim Symens and his team pioneered the development of the first robot ever to play badminton. But this robot is only a guinea pig to test a software application designed to optimise energy efficiency in machine desiThanks to the EU funded research project ESTOMAD, a new computer program is now capable of detecting the energy guzzlers in so-called mechatronic systems, that are controlled by both software and electronics. The results are impressive. . . Read Complete Report
from youtube uploaded by youriscom
Published on Jan 30, 2013
A robot to play with! A childhood’s dream has now come true for researchers at the Flanders’ Mechatronics Technology Centre (FMTC) in Belgium. Wim Symens and his team pioneered the development of the first robot ever to play badminton. But this robot is only a guinea pig to test a software application designed to optimise energy efficiency in machine design.
Photo: This car drives itself. The passengers are being chauffeured by computer. Seen at the VAIL autonomous driving and parking demonstration at Stanford this weekend. The roof is festooned with spinning LIDAR and cameras, feeding into the server farm in the trunk. With more processing power, I’m guessing that the expensive laser rangefinders will be less essential as the 2D video cameras alone can render a 3D map of the world, much like our brain. The next generation may wonder why we wasted 80% of the carrying capacity of our highways, why truckers fell asleep, or what all the fuss was about parallel parking. CREDIT Steve Jurvetson SOURCE and DESCRIPTION above: Wikipedia. ( Public Domain)
From Science Daily
Jan. 28, 2013 — Autonomous, driverless vehicles look set to hit the streets in the near future and become increasingly common, so UK researchers have investigated algorithms that could help developers include escape manoeuvres to allow such vehicles to quickly and safely switch lanes to avoid collisions with other road users.
Writing in the aptly namedInternational Journal of Vehicle Autonomous Systems, Matthew Best of the Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering at Loughborough University, in Leicestershire, discusses the optimisation of a vehicle’s standard brake, acceleration and steering control inputs in the context of avoiding collisions. . . . Read Complete Report
From youtube posted by deutschewelleenglish Uploaded on Aug 3, 2011
I started the “Robotics” department to help us keep our eyes on how fast the Robotics industry can come up with a complete, real human-replaceable robot.
Once the industry creates a “perfect” prototype robot who can pass and do everything human the Controllers (those who finance the robotics industry through “Grants”) will be able to rev up their “population control” plans which is now based on how many human slaves they will need to take care of their elitist crowd.
But I believe they are thinking that maybe they need really need no “Farmer Ants” after all. With a full staff of human robots they’ll have 24/7 workers who don’t bitch about pay, holidays, medical benefits sick leave or even take time away from the task at hand to take a s**t, etc, etc.
Hell, the bosses can even turn off the lights in the workplace to save electricity!
Slaves will no longer be needed. To put it bluntly; you and I babe, along with the whole human race, will become obsolete.
. . . Check out the robot in this video. Imagine yourself as a worker moving those boxes… think you can keep up? I see at least two jobs lost right there… the one throwing and the one catching. And this is just a prototype!. . EDITOR
From IEEE Spectrum
POSTED BY: ERIN RAPACKI
MON, JANUARY 21, 2013
Robots are rapidly learning how to make more decisions for themselves, and now more and more of them are leaving the lab and are going to work in factories, warehouses, hospitals, and offices. In a recent 60 Minutes piece, correspondent Steve Kroft describes how robots are appearing more often in different types of workplaces; in fact, many of the companies mentioned in the piece will be displaying their robotic creations this week at the Automate Show in Chicago. These companies, including the firm I’ve recently joined, Industrial Perception, Inc., or IPI, are working to make robots ready for mainstream use by America’s manufacturing and logistics facilities. . . . Read Complete Report
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